Anthropologies of tourism in brazil: chronicle of working group 24 of the Brazilian Anthropology Meeting (RBA), Belo Horizonte, 23-26 July 2024

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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.040

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Anthropologies of tourism, Brazil, Brazilian Anthropology Meeting (RBA)

Abstract

In this text, we present a reflection on the anthropologies of tourism in Brazil, based on our participation in a working group on this topic, which took place last July in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Based on active listening and dialogue with the participants in this working group, and an intellectual relationship with many of them that has lasted for over 20 years, we present in this chronicle an epistemological look at the diversity of anthropologies of tourism, seeking to demonstrate how the vital anthropology of tourism carried out in Brazil is dominated by the endotopic sameness of objects, themes and research problems.

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Author Biographies

Xerardo Pereiro Pérez, Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro

Xerardo Pereiro (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD, CETRAD – Vila Real – Portugal. Email <xperez@utad.pt> ) holds a European PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia – Spain) and another International PhD in Tourism from the University of La Laguna (Canarias - Spain). He is associated professor with habilitation (tenure) of anthropology (by ISCTE- Lisbon) and cultural tourism in UTAD (Portugal). He conducts research about anthropology of tourism and cultural heritage in CETRAD (Centre for Transdiciplinary Development Studies, https://www.cetrad.utad.pt/) of UTAD. He has done fieldwork research in Asturias and Galicia (Spain), Portugal and Panama –about indigenous guna tourism-. He is the Head of Tourism First Degree Course of UTAD, and was visitor teacher in the universities of Vigo, Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pablo Olavide (Seville), Salamanca, Panamá, “Universidade Nova de Lisboa”, Costa Rica, UNICAMP (Brazil) and others. He was awarded with 1994 Vicente Risco Award of Social Anthropology and Social Sciences, 2007 FITUR in research tourism and 2011 Sol-Meliá - University of Balears Islands Awards for Tourism Research. Nowadays is doing research on Portuguese Inside Way of Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and about Tourism in the Douro Region. He is member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Tourism and Cultural Heritage – Pasos (http://www.pasosonline.org/en/). ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6298-5701

Verena Sevá Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande

Doutora em Antropologia Social e Mestre em Sociologia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, Brasil). Professora associada na Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG, Brasil). Pesquisadora colaboradora no Centro de Estudos Rurais (Ceres – Unicamp). Tem experiência nas áreas da Antropologia e Sociologia, com pesquisas versando sobre os temas: campesinato, territorialidade, mobilidade espacial, redes sociais, trocas, relações de gênero e geracional. Atualmente realiza pesquisa colaborativa em contexto amazônico brasileiro, através do projeto “Territórios sociobiodiversos no Maranhão e Pará: Ambiente, conhecimento e sustentabilidade” (Processo Fapesp número 2022/10359-5, referente à Chamada Iniciativa Amazônia +10). Correio eletrónico: verenaseva@gmail.com

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Published

2025-04-21

How to Cite

Pereiro Pérez, X., & Sevá Nogueira, V. (2025). Anthropologies of tourism in brazil: chronicle of working group 24 of the Brazilian Anthropology Meeting (RBA), Belo Horizonte, 23-26 July 2024. PASOS Revista De Turismo Y Patrimonio Cultural, 23(2), 617–622. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2025.23.040

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2025): PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural

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Crónica de eventos

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